The Chelsea F.C. Thread IV

I deliberately left out the newly promoted thing because it's irrelevant.

Yes, its almost like a new cycle begins with them. It's got to a point where I don't think you can take a potentially real transfer serious till the clubs come out and make official statements. Lol Ronaldo, that's just ridiculous. I'm really happy with the squad, we have a lot of depth this season, compared to last year and the thing is we talked about De Rossi being a transfer because Romeu is gone and/or Mikel was leaving but if Mikel stays (which is looking likely), we have Essien, Luiz and Ramires if you really want to. KdB, Lampard, Oscar and MvG can play in the other half of the double pivot, so we're set.

I finally feel like we're covered in most if not all areas without making an enourmous amount of signings.

We do not.

Yeah, he was pretty good, scored 15 goals that year. No idea what happened next season. I think people realised, just play him on to his left foot and he not know what to do lol.

I'd like Higuain tbh, with Ba making way.

Wouldn't mind this either, although not for the €40m fee RM apparently want.

Talking of Real, their new away kit looks...familiar...

It takes an extreme form of chauvinism to argue that what PSG, Monaco are doing is any different to what Chelsea did (do).

Most clubs have had some external funding in their history. Usually it's the demographic of the wealth that people only acknowledge. In the past we had fans of the club pouring their own personal wealth into their clubs and people will usually only cite Jack Walker for Blackburn because it is the Premier League era. Plenty of examples existed way before him.

It will be interesting to see with Monaco because they kicked up a fuss that the French authorities have taken away their tax free status. There are plenty of ways, on a national level, that clubs can gain advantages over clubs abroad.

Did you read what we said? As I didn't say we were doing anything different(bar trying to win ligue 1 in your first season back there) all we said is that £52 for hulk is a joke I know you know and sev knows

And all he did was mention that it's ironic you guys criticise other teams for overspending on players. Which it is. Just like it was when people criticised PSG on here as well.

You all use the same MO, flex your financial bicep during negotiations be it in terms of bid and/or wages to get players. How can you argue against this?

And NDGAARONDI's post backs this point and wasn't supporting your criticism of PSG overspending on Hulk.

When did I say we didn't do this? Find the quote where I said we're not like PSG I said that PSG had a good history seeing as they're 40 years old. All I said on the Hulk transfer was that Hulk based on his form, not playing in a big 5 league and being **** for the past season does not warrant a £12million profit ffs

And all he did was mention that it's ironic you guys criticise other teams for overspending on players. Which it is. Just like it was when people criticised PSG on here as well.

You all use the same MO, flex your financial bicep during negotiations be it in terms of bid and/or wages to get players. How can you argue against this?

And NDGAARONDI's post backs this point and wasn't supporting your criticism of PSG overspending on Hulk.

It's almost as if we repeat ourselves every two weeks as another person does this slate chelsea day

Wouldn't mind this either, although not for the €40m fee RM apparently want.

Talking of Real, their new away kit looks...familiar...

Indeed. I really don't have much interest in the transfer window, mostly for this reason. I occasionally check to see what transfers are official, but that's it. Most of the knowledge of rumours I have comes from the threads on here. I hope Romeu makes it, though. He'd be an ideal replacement for Mikel.

Imagine us with the 2003 Ronaldo da Lima.



Quite a few good goals were scored by him as well. I remember a lovely header against Blackburn from fifteen or sixteen yards. Oh well. We have better players now and he was rather disagreeable in his last year here.

It's almost as if we repeat ourselves every two weeks as another person does this slate chelsea day

Wait what we signed Benzema...a world class striker!...oh wait...

Oh Real.



Yes, quite rightly. He would indeed, so much more composed on the ball and has some exquisite passing. I remember his 90th minute winner against Stoke City. He was and he said he wanted to leave and he had two transfer windows to leave and an offer from Santos, to which he said no because they couldn't afford his wages, then why say you want to go to Brazil? Ah well. What's done is done, can't linger in the past. That Ronaldo would have been smashing it in left right and centre



Story of our lives.

Would not mind Higuain, he'd score a fair few goals and don't we need to replace our long lost Argentine's in Crespo and Di Santo?

Stop taking things so personal. I haven't mentioned you once. I made a generic statement.

>>>>people criticised PSG
>>>>people

Everyone knows that they overpaid for him. Just like Chelsea have for many players in their recent history. That's the crux of the point. So it's nothing short of hypocrisy to criticise them especially when you guys have defended the practices of your club. It's the MO of clubs who want to parachute themselves to the apex.

If we're replacing Argentinians can we have Messi please?

And yes, I think Chelsea fans were right to take umbrage at Malouda's attitude. He's lost two years of football because of his avarice.